Word: tankerous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pump, with the Arabs taking a share in producing, transporting and marketing the oil. Aramco is willing to give him more money in future concessions but no part in company operations outside Saudi Arabia. Last week the talk of Cairo was about a Tariki plan for an Arab-owned tanker fleet and a new Arab-owned pipeline from the Persian Gulf across Syria to the Mediterranean...
Lights Out. In seconds, Santa Rosa knifed 40 ft. into the empty tanker's port side near the stern, flooding Valchem's lower engine room, shattering two boilers. Fire blazed in Santa Rosa's forward paint locker and amid the debris aboard the Valchem. In Valchem crew's quarters, just five or six feet abaft the deep cut, an oiler awoke into a nightmare. Said Artzy Vokeris, 53, in his broken English: "Lights out. Ship prow cut all lines. Gas steam in. Everybody trapped in room and can't see. I crawl on floor...
...miles east of Atlantic City, most of Santa Rosa's 247 passengers lay asleep. In the bow, on lookout duty, Seaman Armando Gomez, 36, sighted the southbound tanker Valchem. "I heard her whistle a point and a half off the starboard bow," recalls Gomez, "and I reported it by telephone to the bridge. The second mate answered and said O.K. and blew our whistle." Ten minutes later, Gomez saw the tanker's lights ahead and off to the right, again reported to the bridge. Again the mate sounded the whistle. Then, says Gomez, "all of a sudden, within...
...master of Santa Rosa since her maiden trip last year, directed emergency work from the bridge, ordered fire fighters into the paint locker, radioed the Coast Guard for aid (a Coast Guard helicopter dropped extra carbon dioxide fire extinguishers). Siwik kept his ship's prow stuffed into the tanker's big gash, enabling his own crew to help fight Valchem's fire, facilitating the transfer of Valchem's 17 injured seamen to his own ship's hospital. For more than two hours Siwik held his position to keep the tanker from capsizing, drew away only...
...hours later, as a seagoing tug moved in to tow the crippled tanker to port, Santa Rosa, with Valchem's toppled stack perched on her prow, steamed for New York. Before she docked at 8:15 p.m., dozens of grateful passengers had signed a testimonial praising Santa Rosa's crew...